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Mar 29 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
remember in 2017 when Mark Zuckerberg was very clearly positioning himself for a presidential run?
we're slowly figuring out which political rules from the old world still hold water in the new, but the period where people thought that Trump's victory meant anything goes now was wild.
in an alternate timeline not that dissimilar from this one there are thousands of people with laser eye Zuckerberg Avis and #ZuckBucks or #BergBros in their bios
this was real! it was a real thing that happened, even though it sounds like an insane fever dream six years later.

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William B. Fuckley Profile picture
Mar 20
tbh I think there’s an element of narcissism to this kind of stuff among left/liberal intellectuals, this performative self flagellation of their class. I don’t think David Remnick’s endorsement mattered that much, or at all, in going to war.
the largest anti-war demonstrations in world history didn’t stop this, John Chait being in favor was something wasn’t really something that the Bush admin relied on for it to be possible
It’s also kind of ahistorical: Plrnty if elites opposed it, loudly, at the time. 650 IR scholars took out a full page ad in the NYT against the war, saying it wasn’t in America’s national interest. It didn’t matter. foreignpolicy.com/2004/10/12/ir-…
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Mar 19
the thing is that fascists place such mystic importance on political violence as a process of proving something about themselves, and in a serious enough contest that kind of thing actually puts you at a disadvantage to those whose relationship with violence is more workmanlike
a mythologized relationship with violence is an advantage if the other guy doesn’t want it as bad, but if they do, then the side that wants to prove something by winning will be at a disadvantage compared to the side that just wants to win.
The will to violence that gives you an edge in street battles with domestic rivals can also be the thing that leads to you assuming that of course you’ll kick the ass of that weak cesspool country of Jews, Black people, and Jazz music, no to mention those degenerate Slavs.
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Mar 15
it's wild that actual republican officeholders are now proposing policy ideas that Tom Clancy in the 80s was like "yeah that wouldn't work"
"clear and present danger" is probably one of his more intellectually serious, closer to better authors like LeCarre books, I think. the american nat-sec state and cartel are portrayed as both being big complex bureaucracies with people jockeying for position and favor within.
the big complicated black op that forms the spine of the plot is launched for reasons both noble and petty, it unravels predictably. the guys in the field are the ones who suffer most in the end. it's still Clancy, so of course Our Boys come through in the end.
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Mar 15
I'd be really interested in work on how the partisan coding of various cultural things changes over time and whether this change is pushed (something in the space changes people in it's politics) or pulled (their politics change for other reasons & they bring the space with them)
I'm specifically thinking about stuff health food and working out, "crunchy" granola wellness type stuff: used to strike me as a left-coded thing, now seems pretty firmly vaguely right wing.
I grew up a little in this scene and during the bush era years when I was a kid it was very much a vaguely lefty/lib vibe. But now the right wing are the ones freaking out about supposed food contaminants and rejecting vaccines.
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Mar 12
Vampires probably bank mainly with other vampires. Difficult to get appropriate financial instruments from mortals. Regulatory arbitrage really important if your time horizon is longer.
Risk-averse vampire who finally became convinced that this whole internet thing was here to stay and invested a bunch of money in start ups and crypto just in time to lose it all
Everyone has one weird thing that they won’t shut the fuck up about and vampire financial instruments is mine.
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Feb 15
PAY THOSE FATCAT POLITICIANS LESS!! is the kind of superficially populist take that presents obvious huge problems if you think about about it for five seconds, and anyone expressing unironically is either stupid or thinks you are.
“hahaha we cut those fatcat elite’s pay 😈, I’m sure this will have no systematic negative effects whatsoever”
hhhmmm yes I’m sure this will happen, and not, say, elected office becoming exclusively the provenance of this with independent wealth who don’t have to live on the salary
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